LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER

More of what we do depends on gov't permission

Granting or withholding of that approval is powerful lever over our lives

Published: 07/24/2018 at 1:35 PM

(REASON) — Do you have permit for that? If you want to keep that permit, you’d better do as you’re told.

Increasingly, that’s the theme of modern America. More and more of what we do is dependent on permission from the government. That permission, unsurprisingly, is contingent on keeping government officials happy. Rub those officials the wrong way and they’ll strip you of permission to travel the roads, leave the country, or even make a living.